A CHILDS BAD DAY

Written by: Lynne G.

"Gee, I have neber been in so much trouble lately.  Seems like eberytime I wanna do somefing to help around the ranch, bad fings happen.  I don't know what to fink anymore.
 
I wanna do big boy fings cuz I'm a big boy now, and not no baby.
 
Like smornin' I went to get the eggs for Hop Sing.  I didn't mean to twip and falled down.  I busted all them eggs.  I didn't wanna ta tell Hop Sing I twipped and falled down and the eggs got busted, so I buried all them eggs.
 
When I gots back to the kitchen I told Hop Sing wasn't no eggs, and I just looked at him wiv my big puppy doggy eyes.  He mumbled somefing and went back to makin' breakfast.
 
Then some chickens came into the kitchen.  I fink I fergotted to close the gate on the chicken pen, and the kitchen door.  Hop Sing was yelling about chickens in his kitchen, and I just looked at him.  He asked me why chickens come into kitchen, and I told him I dunno.
 
So I went into the libingroom and papa looked at me and he yelled at me cuz I fergotted to pickup my toys, and they was all ober the floor.
 
Hop Sing yelled from the kitchen that there was no eggs for breakfast.  Then Adam and Hoss was mad cuz no eggs.  
 
Hop Sing yelled again that I let the chickens into the kitchen.  Adam told me I was a bad boy fer lettin' chickens in the kitchen, and that I was just a liddle boys wiv no brain.  Hoss said that that was so tew.
 
At breakfast I spilled my milk, and papa gots mad at me.  Adam and Hoss just growled at me.  I fink they was all mad at me.  I wanted some toast so I stood up and my chair to grab the toast, but I felled forwards on the table, and made a big mess.  Papa, Adam and Hoss started to yell at me.  I started to cry, and papa told me to go to my room.
 
After breakfast, papa got Buck ready and he went to town.  Adam and Hoss had barn stuff to do.
 
I went to the barn to help my big bruders, and they told me to get lost.  I didn't wanna cry, but I did.  They don't want me no more.  So I told them I was gonna get lost.  They told me to have fun, and they laughed at me.  So I left to get lost.
 
I walked fer a long time, and I was at mamma"s grave.  I was tired, so I talked to mamma and told her bout my bad day.  I cried fer a long time.  I fink I falled asleep, cuz when I woked up it was kinda gettin' dark, and I got scared.
 
I didn't wanna be lost no more.  It's not fun no more, and I wanna go home, but I didn't know which way to go, so I sat there and cried for papa.
 
Then I hearded a nose and I gots scared.  It was papa, Adam and Hoss.  I was finkin' papa was gonna spank me fer gettin' lost, but he ranned ober to me and picked me up and held me and kissed me.  I cried real hard.  Adam and Hoss camed ober to me and they was happy to see me too.
 
I told them I didn't like bein' lost no more, and I wanted to go home.  Papa put me on Buck and he got on behind me and we all went home.  
 
I fink I falled asleep on the way cuz when I woked up, I was on the sofa wiv a blankey on me, and papa was sittin' there lookin' at me.  He told not to get lost again cuz it worred him.  Then Hop Sing said dinner was ready.  I was so hungry that I eated most of my dinner.  I was really sleepy, so papa carried me to my room .  He gotted me undressed, and he put my nightshirt on me.  Then he told me to go and pee.  Then I said my prayers, and gots into bed.  Papa tucked me in, and he told me he loved me, and told night night.  He gived me lots of kisses.  I falled asleep.
 
The End.

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